Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insist that strong-shouldered jackets will instill the image of serious intelligence, despite the drafty little skirts. Few women buy that. "Power shoulders, power lunches maybe, but not power flesh," says Linda Aronson, 28, a marketing executive on Wall Street who will save her skimpy skirts for weekends. Perennial Model Cheryl Tiegs, 39, has hiked her skirts six inches above the knee, but totes a precautionary cover-up. That is a lesson learned from the '60s, when she was invited to dinner at a posh restaurant: "The maitre d' wouldn't let me sit at the table because...
...mainly as one-stop suppliers for small businesses. Next, taking a cue from Europe's successful hypermarkets, Walton plans to open a chain of Wal-Mart Supercenters, which will offer consumers everything from groceries to hardware in one sprawling 220,000-sq.-ft. emporium. The first one, a test model, will debut this fall in a Dallas suburb...
CONVICTED. Steven Bowman, 27, and Darren Norman, 20; of assault, after being charged with slashing the face of Model Marla Hanson, 25, last June at the behest of her former landlord, Makeup Artist Steven Roth, 28, who was convicted of assault last December; in New York City. Roth, upset by Hanson's refusal to date him and by her demand that he return her $850 apartment deposit, had promised Bowman and Norman an apartment as payment for their crime. All three men face up to 15 years in prison...
...technicians), they are converting their data into video form. Because the human brain is exquisitely adept at picking up visual cues, scientists have begun benefiting from what Robert Langridge of the University of California at San Francisco calls "computer-aided insights." Says Langridge, who uses 3-D graphics to model biological molecules: "Computer graphics gives us a window into what is going on, rather than just a scientific result. It has become an experimental tool...
...argument was that we need to think seriously about an endowment for the literacy efforts in the city," said Henry L. Allen, dean of the Extended Education Program at Roxbury Community College, where the Adult Literary Resource Institute is based. "We had a very successful model here--the Adult Literacy Initiative...